12:55 PM EDT 07/05/2009
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INSIDE STORY: Kendra Sparkles in a Fairy-Tale Wedding
Originally posted 06/29/2009 03:05PM
Call her the princess next door.
Wearing a white R-Mine dress with a bodice bedecked with thousands of crystals, Kendra Wilkinson shimmered down the aisle for her wedding Saturday evening to pro football player Hank Baskett on the front lawn of the Playboy Mansion, sources tell PEOPLE.
After reciting traditional vows before non-denominational minister Chris Robinson, the star of The Girls Next Door spin-off Kendra, had Baskett place a third ring on her wedding finger – to go with her engagement ring and another ring he had given her earlier for their baby on the way.
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Kendra Wilkinson Was a 'Princess' Bride, Says Holly Madison
Originally posted 06/28/2009 05:30PM
With the backdrop of a sunset and an altar bedecked with white flowers, Kendra Wilkinson's wedding was "absolutely beautiful," according to one of the bridesmaids.
As for the bride, "She looked like a princess," Holly Madison told PEOPLE a few hours after Saturday's nuptials at the Playboy Mansion. "It was a beautiful setting for a wedding."
Before some 300 guests, including ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, the bride and groom Hank Baskett recited traditional vows. Wilkinson wore a white dress with a "tight bodice and poofy skirt," Madison said.
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Kendra Wilkinson Weds at Playboy Mansion
Originally posted 06/27/2009 10:35PM
In a wedding fit for a princess, Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson wed her NFL player beau Hank Baskett at her onetime residence, the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles's exclusive Holmby Hills, on Saturday, PEOPLE confirms.
At around 6:45 p.m., the Playmate and former Girls Next Door star, 24, walked down the aisle in a white dress, dripping in more than $100,000 worth of platinum jewelry by Michael Barin, including drop earrings, a pendant and bracelet. The groom also wore white, as did the groomsmen, while the bridesmaids were in lavender.
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Eddie Van Halen – in Flip-Flops – Weds Girlfriend
Originally posted 06/27/2009 10:30PM
Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen is no longer a solo: Saturday night he married Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years.
The ceremony took place in the garden of his seven-acre estate in the hills above Studio City, Calif., starting at 7 p.m., when Liszewski walked down the aisle to Van Halen's "When It's Love," performed by the Sonus Quartet.
The 54-year-old groom's 18-year-old son, Wolfgang, served as best man, while brother Alex Van Halen, an ordained minister, officiated at the 20-minute, nondenominational service. Among the 100 guests: Van Halen's ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli (they divorced in 2006, after 25 years of marriage.)
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Michael Strahan & Nicole Murphy Are Engaged
Originally posted 06/15/2009 06:55PM
For onetime New York Giants star Michael Strahan, May 22 was a big day: He got engaged to Nicole Murphy – and learned that the pilot for his new TV show, Brothers, had been picked up.
"It was a pretty great day," Strahan's manager tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Strahan, 37, popped the question to Murphy (the ex-wife of actor Eddie Murphy) on a beach in the Bahamas with a stunning canary yellow and white diamond ring.
"I have a great relationship and she's a great girl," says Strahan, who is a father of four. "I don't like to talk much about my private life, but I'm really happy."
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Shooter Jennings & Drea de Matteo Get Engaged – On Stage
Originally posted 06/12/2009 03:45PM
Good thing she said yes!
Drea de Matteo and her longtime boyfriend Shooter Jennings got engaged Thursday night at the rocker's concert in Utica, N.Y., PEOPLE has confirmed.
"[Drea] was dancing on the side of the stage holding [the couple's 18-month-old daughter] Alabama when [Shooter] called her on stage," a source says. "She was so surprised by the proposal."
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Boris Becker Weds
Originally posted 06/12/2009 03:15PM
Tennis ace Boris Becker wed Sharlely "Lilly" Kerssenberg in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Friday. About 200 guests,
many of them famous athletes like race car driver Mika Häkkinen and soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, watched the couple tie the knot in the Bergkappelle, or mountain chapel, there, 6,562 feet above sea level. The ceremony was performed by Brent Fisher, 69, a Lutheran priest and native New Yorker who lives in St. Moritz.
Kerssenberg, 32, was walked down the aisle by her 80-year-old grandmother, Esseline Kerssenberg-Bradley. Becker's best man was his friend Luis Garcia Fanjul, a Mexican businessman.
Earlier in the day, a civil ceremony was performed in German, English and Swiss-German, which moved the participants to tears. "The Justice of the Peace
performed the ceremony in such an emotional way that I really had to cry," Becker, 41, told the German television station RTL. Kerssenberg added, "I already started crying in the car."
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Mike Tyson Marries – for Third Time – in Vegas
Originally posted 06/10/2009 07:00AM
Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson married girlfriend Lakiha Spicer in Las Vegas over the weekend, according to news reports.
The marriage – Tyson's third – comes two weeks after the accidental death of his 4-year-old daughter, Exodus Tyson. The youngster was found strangled by the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill's console in her home.
Spicer, 32, was said to have been comforting Tyson, 42, during the tragedy.
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The O.C.'s Autumn Reeser Reveals Wedding Details
Originally posted 06/08/2009 01:55PM
When The O.C.'s Autumn Reeser decided to tie the knot with her longtime sweetheart, writer-director Jesse Warren, she had one request: She wanted to get married under a tree.
On May 9, her dream came true when she exchanged self-penned vows with
Warren, 31, under a 200-year old oak at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, Calif.
Wearing a wedding gown by designer Carolina Herrera, Reeser, 28, walked down a winding aisle, which was decorated with herbs and white rose petals, in front of 200 friends and family.
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Natasha Henstridge Planning International Wedding Bash
Originally posted 06/04/2009 01:05PM
Just call her the anti-Bridezilla.
Natasha Henstridge may be tying the knot, but she's not obsessing about every little detail of the wedding ceremony. Her main priorities: "The food, the dress and who's going to be there."
"Beyond that, somebody else can plan the whole thing," the ITALIC "Species"] star, 34, tells InStyle Weddings.
Engaged to her fiancé, Scottish singer Darius Danesh, for two years, Henstridge has yet to decide on a location but does have an idea as to where she'd like to get married.
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